Does anyone know of a free or inexpensive membership that will provide
unlimited iBooks appropriate for a 2nd grade student?
THanks
Rebecca Fishman, TVI

If Bookshare is not an option, here's some other choices:
You can sign up for a teacher's account through  the McGenius app which will provide 70-80 free interactive books. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meegenius!-kids-books-read/id364734296?mt=8

Since iBooks reads PDF's you can create access to books by scanning them and saving them as a PDF document. You could work with a high school social club that would be willing to  volunteer time to scan the books for your student.

There are thousands of mini-books available through Tar Heel Reader http://tarheelreader.org
Although they are formatted in powerpoint, they can be downloaded and converted to a PDF, that can then be read through iBooks.

Hope this helps,
Tina

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Does anyone know of a free or inexpensive membership that will provide unlimited iBooks appropriate for a 2nd grade student?
THanks
Rebecca Fishman, TVI

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I forwarded this thread about iBooks to Dr. Gary Bishop, computer science professor at the University of North Carolina.  Dr. Bishop and his students created and maintain Tar Heel Reader.  He asked if I would post that there is a new version of Tar Heel Reader that supports downloading books in ePub format for direct import into iBooks.  They are also improving Tar Heel Reader – one of the improvements is to make it work even better with Voiceover.

If you have comments or suggestions for Tar Heel Reader or other technology needs, please let me know.

Diane
From: R Fishman
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 10:17 AM
To: Tina Hertzog
Cc: AERNet@lists.aerbvi.org
Subject: Re: [AERNet] iPad and books

Thank you all for your responses. I had thought of bookshare before, but just wanted to confirm before I requested the district purchase the ReadToG app-
Do the BS books work the same as iBooks? for example, are they loaded in print, not just audio, the page turning the same, etc.
THanks
Rebecca

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Tina Hertzog tinher@berksiu.org wrote:

If Bookshare is not an option, here’s some other choices:

You can sign up for a teacher’s account through  the McGenius app which will provide 70-80 free interactive books. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/meegenius!-kids-books-read/id364734296?mt=8

Since iBooks reads PDF’s you can create access to books by scanning them and saving them as a PDF document. You could work with a high school social club that would be willing to  volunteer time to scan the books for your student.

There are thousands of mini-books available through Tar Heel Reader http://tarheelreader.org

Although they are formatted in powerpoint, they can be downloaded and converted to a PDF, that can then be read through iBooks.

Hope this helps,

Tina

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Does anyone know of a free or inexpensive membership that will provide unlimited iBooks appropriate for a 2nd grade student?

THanks

Rebecca Fishman, TVI

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HI Everyone,

Many of you know/know of Dr. Gary Bishop, UNC computer science professor. He and his students have updated Tar Heel Reader and would like feedback on the changes and other ways to make Tar Heel Reader better. Tar Heel Reader was originally designed to create simple reading books for older beginner readers (not necessarily VI students). Teachers and/or students can add pictures and type in sentences, creating their own books. Tar Heel Reader is a website; it can be access with a PC, Apple computer or iPad. Tar Heel Reader is being used all over the world (books are created in various languages) and over a million books have been created and are available on the website!

To view and test the newest version of Tar Heel Reader, click on this link:
http://tarheelreader3.cs.unc.edu/

The new version of Tar Heel Reader supports downloading books in EPUB format for direct import into iBooks. VoiceOver works well with Tar Heel Reader text; remember that VoiceOver does not “read” images. Remember, you or a student can quickly create a new book and your braille student can read the book in Braille using his/her refreshable braille device paired with the iPad. (To read the book in Braille only, turn off the speech – 3 fingers, double tap – and leave Voiceover on.) This is a great way for classroom teachers to follow along as the blind student reads braille!

Thanks for your input!
Diane

From: Diane Brauner
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 10:27 AM
To: R Fishman ; Tina Hertzog
Cc: AERNet@lists.aerbvi.org
Subject: Re: [AERNet] iPad and books; Tar Heel Reader

I forwarded this thread about iBooks to Dr. Gary Bishop, computer science professor at the University of North Carolina.  Dr. Bishop and his students created and maintain Tar Heel Reader.  He asked if I would post that there is a new version of Tar Heel Reader that supports downloading books in ePub format for direct import into iBooks.  They are also improving Tar Heel Reader – one of the improvements is to make it work even better with Voiceover.

If you have comments or suggestions for Tar Heel Reader or other technology needs, please let me know.

Diane